[lloyd]

So, I installed DFL and Entice. And create a form with the Entice designer.
Then I copied the code in visual D and tried to compile!

I got this error:
Error 1 Error: module all is in file 'dfl\all.d' which cannot be read C:\Dev\DTest\DTest1\myform.d 7

on
import dfl.all;

No I have DFL installed! all.d can be found in
C:\D\dmd2\windows\import\dfl\all.d
and the DMD install path is
C:\D\dmd2\windows\

How do I set the import path? There seems to be no way to specify it!

Further, I wonder (this is really a D newbie beginner question), what's the point of
C:\D\dmd2\windows\lib\dfl_build.lib if I got the whole DFL source in the "import" directory anyway?

[lloyd]

After some reading.. I stumbled upon something which gave me an idea...

I edit the sc.ini as follows:

DFLAGS="-I%@P%\..\..\src\phobos" "-I%@P%\..\..\src\druntime\import" "-I%@P%\..\import"


i.e. I added the import path to DFL
(why could I do that in the project's property screen?)

Now, when I try to compile I got this error:
Error 1 Error: module gc is in file 'std\gc.d' which cannot be read C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin\..\import\dfl\internal\dlib.d 516

And.. damn, there is no gc.d in
C:\D\dmd2\src\phobos\std mm...

[sagitario]

[lloyd]

Thanks for your answer!

I should say I was confused by this page "additional imports" "string import" which one should I use? Anyway Addition import did it!

Now I dropped DFL as it depends on the Tango which requires to... replace the runtime library! And I don't feel quite ready for that yet...

So I'm giving a go to DGui.

Now I can't compile it with Visual D, I get this strange error:
Error 1 Error 42: Symbol Undefined _D4dgui3all12__ModuleInfoZ C:\Dev\DTest\DTest1\


now, I', m trying to get inspired by the DGui samples (which compiled with a .bat file), apparently they feed the following 'arg' file to dmd to compile:
=======
events.d
..\dgui\build\debug\dgui_dbg.lib
-L/SUBSYSTEM:windows:4
-g
-debug
-odobj
-ofevents.exe
-I..
=======

I'm confused by a few things:
1. what's the point of the dgui.lib, there is the whole source code (that the compiler seems to look) in ".." (reference by '-I..')

2..... mmm still trying to understand what I don't understand.... mmm....

[lloyd]

progress... (but still tumbling) on
project property => Linker => Library Files
I set "dgui_dbg.lib"

On .... Library Search Path
I set "C:\D\dgui\dgui\build\debug"

Just so you know
C:\D\dgui\dgui\build\debug\dgui_dbg.lib do exists!

The compilation fails and the buildlog is as follow (below) any tips?!?
------
Building Debug\DTest1.exe

Command Line

set PATH=C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\\bin;%PATH%
set DMD_LIB=;C:\D\dgui\dgui\build\debug
dmd -g -debug -X -Xf"Debug\DTest1.json" -IC:\D\dgui -of"Debug\DTest1.exe_cv" -deps="Debug\DTest1.dep" -map "Debug\DTest1.map" -L/NOMAP dgui_dbg.lib hello.d
if errorlevel 1 goto reportError
if not exist "Debug\DTest1.exe_cv" (echo "Debug\DTest1.exe_cv" not created! && goto reportError)
echo Converting debug information...
"C:\Program Files (x86)\VisualD\cv2pdb\cv2pdb.exe" -D2 "Debug\DTest1.exe_cv" "Debug\DTest1.exe"
if errorlevel 1 goto reportError
if not exist "Debug\DTest1.exe" (echo "Debug\DTest1.exe" not created! && goto reportError)

goto noError

:reportError
echo Building Debug\DTest1.exe failed!

:noError
Output

OPTLINK (R) for Win32 Release 8.00.12
Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989-2010 All rights reserved.
http://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/optlink.html
dgui_dbg.lib
Warning 2: File Not Found dgui_dbg.lib
Debug\DTest1.obj(DTest1)
Error 42: Symbol Undefined _D4dgui3all12__ModuleInfoZ
--- errorlevel 1
Building Debug\DTest1.exe failed!

[lloyd]

I think I understand....
Visual D create a variable "DMD_LIB" for my lib path, but it's wrong!
according to this document:
http://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/optlink.html

it should be 'LIB'

Anyway, instead of using 'dgui_dbg.lib' I used 'C:\D\dgui\dgui\build\debug\dgui_dbg.lib'

And that fixed it!
(but it's rather cumbersome hey!)

[sagitario]

Sorry that you had to figure it out the stony way. This is a known issue: http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald/wiki/KnownIssues#Librarysearchpathnotpassedtolinker

The problem is that it does not help to set the LIB environment variable, because the setting in sc.ini always causes dmd to override it. That's why I'm using a different variable that should be appended to LIB in sc.ini.

[lloyd]

Thanks for the precision, they are good to know!

I might made a new post in a few days, about it (and my later UI experiments)!